Dry Tank

Great idea Cindy! At least then there would be something living in the tank.
Unfortunately we had to kill another snake last week. This one was in
the kitchen. I say unfortunately as it turned out to be a tree snake but
it was very thick and about 4 feet long and the lighting where it was
made it next to impossible to see the colouring and we couldnt see it's
head - looked like a brown snake and I'm too young to die
Next day I saw a beautiful coppery coloured one go through the house
yard. I'm all snaked out right now and you wouldn't believe how many
noises round your house can suddenly sound like a snake sliding

Cindy wrote:
I looked at terreriums and it seems like the tank would need to be
removed for things to be installed correctly? I'm not even an
amatuer - let alone an expert - so I have no idea if that's the
case or not.


I don't think so.


You guys seem like a pretty knowledgeable group - what would you do
if you had maybe a thousand or two to spend on this project to make
it look presentable - if not really cool looking?


Does the owner like reptiles? That would make a great home for some bearded
dragons! They need UVB light, which shoudn't be a problem. Some kind of
heating from overhead that makes a temperature gradient in the tank.
They're dry/desert animals, so maybe a small fan to move the air.

I would LOVE having something like this....it's hard to ever have a big
enough enclosure to make a good home for a reptile. I keep boa
constrictors, an iguana, a turtle. I would NOT recommend an iguana, though.

Miskairal
Your place and snakes osunds like our place here with
snakes......Loaded with rattlers, copperheads and cotton
mouths......plus tons of other non venomenous types. Once it gets warm
out, you certainly do not walk around outside at night without a
flashlight. We kept a 4 foot eztern diamondback and a 3 foot timbler
mrattler in a acrylic tank for years, until I finally had enough sense
to admit it was a dangerous thing no matter who well i thought I could
handle them.....so I turned them loose......Anymore if possible I
catch and relocate, and kill only if there is no other way out.

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:24:34 +1000, miskairal
wrote:
Great idea Cindy! At least then there would be something living in the tank.
Unfortunately we had to kill another snake last week. This one was in
the kitchen. I say unfortunately as it turned out to be a tree snake but
it was very thick and about 4 feet long and the lighting where it was
made it next to impossible to see the colouring and we couldnt see it's
head - looked like a brown snake and I'm too young to die
Next day I saw a beautiful coppery coloured one go through the house
yard. I'm all snaked out right now and you wouldn't believe how many
noises round your house can suddenly sound like a snake sliding

Cindy wrote:
I looked at terreriums and it seems like the tank would need to be
removed for things to be installed correctly? I'm not even an
amatuer - let alone an expert - so I have no idea if that's the
case or not.


I don't think so.


You guys seem like a pretty knowledgeable group - what would you do
if you had maybe a thousand or two to spend on this project to make
it look presentable - if not really cool looking?


Does the owner like reptiles? That would make a great home for some bearded
dragons! They need UVB light, which shoudn't be a problem. Some kind of
heating from overhead that makes a temperature gradient in the tank.
They're dry/desert animals, so maybe a small fan to move the air.

I would LOVE having something like this....it's hard to ever have a big
enough enclosure to make a good home for a reptile. I keep boa
constrictors, an iguana, a turtle. I would NOT recommend an iguana, though.




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I don't know about where you are but here there are more people killed
by snakes whilst trying to catch/kill them. We only kill them if they
are in the house or in my bird aviaries/sheds. Normally we would never
kill a tree snake. Last year I took a photo of a tree snake in a tree
right beside the back door. It was only feet away from me but when I got
the photo developed (yes, old stuff) you cannot see that there is a
snake there at all, even I can't.

I have 2 spare 90 litre tanks at the moment and the thought has crossed
my mind to house some reptiles. I have done no research yet though so I
don't even know if that is possible in such small tanks. I'll probably
never look into it - learning all this sal****er stuff is enough for the
next few years

Roy wrote:
Miskairal
Your place and snakes osunds like our place here with
snakes......Loaded with rattlers, copperheads and cotton
mouths......plus tons of other non venomenous types. Once it gets warm
out, you certainly do not walk around outside at night without a
flashlight. We kept a 4 foot eztern diamondback and a 3 foot timbler
mrattler in a acrylic tank for years, until I finally had enough sense
to admit it was a dangerous thing no matter who well i thought I could
handle them.....so I turned them loose......Anymore if possible I
catch and relocate, and kill only if there is no other way out.

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:24:34 +1000, miskairal
wrote:

Great idea Cindy! At least then there would be something living in the tank.
Unfortunately we had to kill another snake last week. This one was in
the kitchen. I say unfortunately as it turned out to be a tree snake but
it was very thick and about 4 feet long and the lighting where it was
made it next to impossible to see the colouring and we couldnt see it's
head - looked like a brown snake and I'm too young to die
Next day I saw a beautiful coppery coloured one go through the house
yard. I'm all snaked out right now and you wouldn't believe how many
noises round your house can suddenly sound like a snake sliding

Cindy wrote:
I looked at terreriums and it seems like the tank would need to be
removed for things to be installed correctly? I'm not even an
amatuer - let alone an expert - so I have no idea if that's the
case or not.


I don't think so.


You guys seem like a pretty knowledgeable group - what would you do
if you had maybe a thousand or two to spend on this project to make
it look presentable - if not really cool looking?


Does the owner like reptiles? That would make a great home for some bearded
dragons! They need UVB light, which shoudn't be a problem. Some kind of
heating from overhead that makes a temperature gradient in the tank.
They're dry/desert animals, so maybe a small fan to move the air.

I would LOVE having something like this....it's hard to ever have a big
enough enclosure to make a good home for a reptile. I keep boa
constrictors, an iguana, a turtle. I would NOT recommend an iguana, though.

miskairal typed:

I have 2 spare 90 litre tanks at the moment and the thought has
crossed my mind to house some reptiles. I have done no research yet
though so I don't even know if that is possible in such small
tanks. I'll probably never look into it - learning all this
sal****er stuff is enough for the next few years

90 litre--hmm okay sorry, but I don't do math ;} --what are the dimensions
of the tanks?

"Cindy" wrote in message t...
miskairal typed:

I have 2 spare 90 litre tanks at the moment and the thought has
crossed my mind to house some reptiles. I have done no research yet
though so I don't even know if that is possible in such small
tanks. I'll probably never look into it - learning all this
sal****er stuff is enough for the next few years

90 litre--hmm okay sorry, but I don't do math ;}
--what are the dimensions of the tanks?

90 litres is about 90/3.8 ~ 24 US gallons.

Pszemol typed:
"Cindy" wrote in message
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miskairal typed:

I have 2 spare 90 litre tanks at the moment and the thought has
crossed my mind to house some reptiles. I have done no research
yet though so I don't even know if that is possible in such small
tanks. I'll probably never look into it - learning all this
sal****er stuff is enough for the next few years

90 litre--hmm okay sorry, but I don't do math ;}
--what are the dimensions of the tanks?

90 litres is about 90/3.8 ~ 24 US gallons.

Thank you. : )

miskairal, are they tall tanks, or do they have more horizontal area?
Dimensions?

Leopard geckos. Corn snakes. Dart frogs. Hognose snakes. Small,
not-too-active herps. What can you get there? Aren't herps pretty heavily
regulated in Australia?

One's tall, one's not. They're both 3 foot long. Sorry, I have the
measurements somewhere but but I'm too lazy at the moment to find them
or go measure the tanks again (I'm settled in for the night in front of
my pc with a drink

You have to be licensed to keep anything reptile here and that's about
all I know so far. I'm sure nothing would be imported as quarintine
would cost too much. I don't know what most of those critters are you
mention but we have geckos running all over the house at night. We had
visitors one day and two huge geckos started having a big barny, caused
quite a disturbance rolling around on the floor. We also have heaps of
green tree frogs. There is one at the moment that I find each morning on
top of my guppy tank but under the light. He/she is making a real mess
and will have to go for a drive down the paddock soon to the creek. If I
just put it outside it is back next morning. At one stage we had so many
frogs our toilet wasnt' working properly. On investigation there were 17
frogs in the cistern, most of them hanging off the float - very helpful

I'd like a couple of lizards - frilled necks if they are safe and
allowed. A lad my son grew up with used to have all manner of things in
his room. Needless to say he now works at Australia Zoo with Steve
Erwin. I would have called him when the snake was in the kitchen last
week rather than kill it but the zoo is 2 hour's drive away and he
wasn't on days off.

Cindy wrote:
Pszemol typed:

"Cindy" wrote in message
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miskairal typed:

I have 2 spare 90 litre tanks at the moment and the thought has
crossed my mind to house some reptiles. I have done no research
yet though so I don't even know if that is possible in such small
tanks. I'll probably never look into it - learning all this
sal****er stuff is enough for the next few years

90 litre--hmm okay sorry, but I don't do math ;}
--what are the dimensions of the tanks?

90 litres is about 90/3.8 ~ 24 US gallons.


Thank you. : )

miskairal, are they tall tanks, or do they have more horizontal area?
Dimensions?

Leopard geckos. Corn snakes. Dart frogs. Hognose snakes. Small,
not-too-active herps. What can you get there? Aren't herps pretty heavily
regulated in Australia?

miskairal typed:
Great idea Cindy! At least then there would be something living in
the tank. Unfortunately we had to kill another snake last week.
This one was in the kitchen. I say unfortunately as it turned out to be a
tree
snake but it was very thick and about 4 feet long and the lighting where
it
was made it next to impossible to see the colouring and we couldnt see
it's head - looked like a brown snake and I'm too young to die
Next day I saw a beautiful coppery coloured one go through the house
yard. I'm all snaked out right now and you wouldn't believe how many
noises round your house can suddenly sound like a snake sliding

I like snakes and keep a few, so if I heard those noises I'd be running to
catch it. But I've never had a copperhead come in the house either....
; /